Thomas Hill (author)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Other people". Template:Use dmy dates Thomas Hill (ca. 1528 - ca. 1574)[1] was an English astrologer, writer and translator[2] who most probably also wrote as Didymus Mountain.[3]
Life
Hill described himself as a Londoner, who had received a modest education, although this did include a knowledge of Latin and Italian.[4]
Works
He was the author of the first popular book in English about gardening — The profitable arte of gardening — which was first published in 1563 under the title A most briefe and pleasaunte treatyse, teachynge how to dresse, sowe, and set a garden.[3][5] He went on to write other popular works, such as The Proffitable Arte of Gardening (1568)[4] and The Gardener's Labyrinth (1577). The latter work was originally published after Hill's death under the name of Didymus Mountain, now generally attributed to Thomas Hill.Template:Sfn In 1988, the Oxford University Press produced a paperback reprint of this book under the name Thomas Hill.[6] Hill also published works on arithmetic, astrology, the interpretation of dreams and physiognomy.[7]
References
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- ↑ Gordon Goodwin (1891). "Hill, Thomas (fl.1590)". In Dictionary of National Biography. 26. London. p. 422.
- ↑ a b Bibliography of works on gardening, reprinted from the second edition of "A history of gardening in England" (1897), auth. Cecil, Evelyn, Mrs, London
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- ↑ The Gardener's Labyrinth, By (author) Thomas Hill, Volume editor Richard Mabey, Oxford University Press, 1988
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